Body and Emotion : : The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas /

Body and Emotion : : The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas / / Robert R. Desjarlais.

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Body and Emotion is a study of the relationship between culture and emotional distress, an examination of the cultural forces that influence, make sense of, and heal severe pain and malaise. In order to investigate this relationship, Robert R. Desjarlais served as an apprentice healer among the Yolm...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
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Desjarlais, Robert R.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©1993
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Contemporary Ethnography
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 27 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transcription
  • 1. Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads
  • 2. Body, Speech, Mind
  • 3. An Aesthetics of Experience
  • 4. Pain Clings to the Body
  • 5. Soul Loss
  • 6. The Art of Knowing
  • 7. Metamorphoses
  • 8. A Calling of Souls
  • 9. Departures
  • 10. Afterwords
  • Notes
  • Glossary of Terms
  • References
  • Index
  • Backmatter

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